 | The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s (Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures) by David Farber
Buy new: $25.93 / Used from: $10.50 Great book by many authors giving you a good historical overview of the 1960's
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 | The Sixties - The Years That Shaped a Generation
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $13.58 Public television documentary also gives a good overview of the events of the Sixties
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 | The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade
Buy new: $33.96 / Used from: $11.30 Good selection of writings from the 1960s, looked at from many angles
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 | Positively 60's by Various Artists
Buy used from: $8.50 Great 2-CD collection of Sixties music, with a lot of variety and emphasizing more "serious" stuff
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 | The Beatles Anthology by Beatles
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $14.25 Story of the Beatles as told by themselves, and with lots of photos and other goodies
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 | The Beatles 1 by The Beatles
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.00 Good single-CD collection of the most influential band of the Sixties
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 | Fly Jefferson Airplane
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.10 Terrific and unedited videos of the leading 60's psychedelic rock band, and interesting new interviews with group members
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 | Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s by John Bassett McCleary
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $5.64 A really far-out book that no respectable counterculture adherent should be without
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 | Let Every Nation Know with Audio CD by Robert Dallek
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $3.98 Brother Teddy says this is the best book on JFK, and it includes a great CD with excerpts of his speeches
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 | Easy Rider
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.62 Perhaps the best feature film about the 1960s counterculture
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 | Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.21 This great black comedy gives you a good feel for the U.S.-Russian Cold War and fear of nuclear annihilation that permeated the Sixties
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 | 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Buy used from: $3.47 This milestone of the 1960s set the standard for science fiction films, with a psychedelic ending like a Sixties drug trip
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 | Psych-Out / The Trip
Buy used from: $11.99 These give a good feel for the Sixties counterculture though they're not among the very best films of the era, and the DVD also has great extras....."The Trip" has far-out psychedelic stuff in it too
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 | NOVA - To the Moon
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $5.48 Very good Public TV documentary that summarizes the Moon Race in the Sixties
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 | Men from Earth by Buzz Aldrin
Buy used from: $0.01 Good first-hand account of the Space Race of the 1960s and written by Buzz Aldrin, second man on the Moon
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 | The Essential Bob Dylan (Rm) (2CD) by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $7.00 Some of the best of this great singer/songwriter that was so influential in the 1960s and beyond
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 | Vanguard Sessions: Baez Sings Dylan by Joan Baez
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.64 Joan Baez is one of the best interpreters of Bob Dylan's songs
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 | Casey Kasem: Top Ten - 60's the Folk Years by Various Artists
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $5.00 Gives you a good idea of Sixties folk music, which led to the folk-rock revolution
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 | All the Leaves Are Brown: The Golden Era Collection by The Mamas & the Papas
Buy used from: $29.95 The Mamas and the Papas' first 4 albums on 2 CDs......more variety than their "greatest hits" collections
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 | The Very Best of Peter, Paul and Mary by Peter Paul & Mary
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $9.08 Excellent new compilation of songs from the most influential folk group of the Sixties
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 | The Monkees - Greatest Hits by The Monkees
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.91 For just the greatest hits, this or "The Best of the Monkees" CD are a toss-up, but this one does have several later songs, a nice cover photo, and "D.W. Washburn"....or get the 2-CD "Anthology"
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 | Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut)
Buy used from: $9.96 The legendary Woodstock concert, with 20 minutes of deleted footage put back in......a great bargain
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 | The Complete Monterey Pop Festival - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $64.99 / Used from: $49.99 This and Woodstock being the biggest pop music festivals of the Sixties......or the single DVD version of Monterey Pop is easier on the budget
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 | Magic of the Sixties by Gene Anthony
Buy used from: $11.00 Great photos and informative text arranged into many topics give a good feel for our favorite decade
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 | Hippie by Barry Miles
Buy used from: $6.98 Groovy oversize tome on Sixties hippies in words and many pictures
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| Test Your Countercultural Literacy by Kathy A. Zahler
Buy used from: $0.01 Fun way to learn about the Sixties - take these informative quizzes
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 | Swingin' Chicks of the 60's by Chris Strodder
Buy used from: $8.56 Fun book on those sexy and swingin' Sixties babes
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 | On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of the Counterculture by Paul Perry
Buy used from: $59.28 Fun book about the legendary 1964 bus trip headed by Ken Kesey and his Merrie Pranksters, which was symbolic of 1960s counterculture
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